Maren Vitousek

My lab studies how stress and social interactions alter the biological state of organisms that experience them. Much of our work uses free-living passerine birds, including tree swallows, as model systems to test the neuroendocrine, epigenetic, and gut microbial impacts of stress and social connectedness, and their fitness effects.

Title: Associate Professor

Department: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Roles: Faculty Investigator, Potential Undergraduate Mentor

Research Areas: Animal Hosts, Bacteria, Disease Ecology and Evolution, Microbiota and Microbiomes

Lab: https://vitousek.weebly.com/

Email: mnv6@cornell.edu